MELODY WOODNUTT | 'Night Blooming Branches' | 2025 | Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Hemp paper / from cropped 16mm film still Daniel Beeron Artwork story: An Island warrior

Artwork story: An Island warrior ready for battle

Paper size: 420 x 730 mm

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MELODY WOODNUTT | 'Night Blooming Branches' | 2025 | Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Hemp paper / from cropped 16mm film still Daniel Beeron Artwork story: An Island warrior"'The Apparition' is a conjuring and ascension of spirit. It is a futile attempt to build her grandfather Franks unfinished boat which he was making out of love for his wife. Upon Frank's death, the massive boat frame stood as a 17m long, 9m wide bare skeleton unfinished for 40 years with no hull, having never seen the sea. The artwork thus becomes the boat's spectral fiction and a ghostly apparition. The Apparition conjures a siren's call from beyond